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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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